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SUpport equipment engineering division ofthe John F. Kennedy Space Center,1943NASA.Mrs. Robert I. Thompson (Jean Bentley)22 Woodside RoadChagrin Falls, Ohio 44022The seasons do change, don't they? We've~witched from baseball to basketball-keep-109 up with the high school varsity andfrosh teams is no mean feat. Our big newsis that Don has been accepted at HaverfordCollege, Haverford, Pennsylvania, forthe fall of '66 under the Early DecisionPlan.Virginia (Pip) Phillips finally came throughwith her address-Pip is Social Sciences Librarianat University of Maryland Library-she sees Maude Wilson Shirey (who, incidentally,traveled to Tucson, Arizona, thispast summer-Pip vacationed there lastwinter).Bud (Francis J.) Blair has been promotedto Assistant Division Sales Manager, NewYork, by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.Bud and his family-wife Gerry,daughter Barbara, and son Kevin-movedinto their new home in Mahwah, New Jersey,in December, 1965.Dr. Don and Marie Steele Cameron havesuccumbed to living in town and are at510 Newdale Drive, Bryan, Ohio.Word from Ginny Walk," Metger thatshe and her family are now settled in Sumter,South Carolina-Ginny is teaching mathat the junior high school at Shaw Air ForceBase-son Bob is attending University ofSouth Carolina at Columbia, South Carolina.Bud Smith and "Deiffie" (Jeanne DeifJenbach,'44) have moved to Salisbury-Bud iswith Cities Service Oil Company as DistrictSales Representative for Eastern Shore ofMaryland and Virginia. Their daughterCarol is attending jefferson School of Commercein Salisbury; Mike is in tenth grade,and Anne is in sixth grade-Jeanne adaptedso quickly that she found herself a GirlScout leader soon after she unpacked.Bud passed along the news that HaroldPhillips opened a new and larger clothingstore in Laurel, Delaware, in August-"areal showplace." Bud was also kind enoughto send me a news clipping on Jack Morris-Remember him? Jack went on to WestPoint in 1940-while at WMC he was amember of the Bachelors and active insoccer and track. To quote the news item,"Col. John w. Morris, commanding officerof the 3rd Regiment, U. S. Corps of Cadets,U. S. Military Academy, since July, hasbeen awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionellymeritorious services as DistrictEngineer, Tulsa, Oklahoma, from June '62,to June '65."Col. Morris was cited for his leadership,technical knowledge and professional skillin directing a large engineering and construottonprogrum. The program involved aOklahoma,water resources development inand parts of Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas,Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico."A 1943 graduate of the U. S. MilitaryAcademy, he earned a Master's degree incivil engineering from the U. of Iowa in1948. He was also graduated from the U. S.Command and General Staff College andthe U. S. Anny War College." Jack and hiswife, Geraldine, live at West Point withtheir two childrcn-Susan, 17, and John, 15.Phyl Cade Gruber has retired from teachingbut sounds just as busy ,IS ever-MarieCrawford Allnutt, who has been working inreligious education in Salisbury, has movedon to the Calvary Methodist Church inFrederick. She has enrolled in Wesley Seminarywith a goal of her Ph.D. in religionHow about giving me a break? PLEASEanswer my cards-Thanks.1945Mrs. Floyd O. Thomas (Dee Hartke)2316 Harcroft RoadTimonium, Maryland 21093Janet Lee Baugher CQtJington is the samehuman dynamo she was in college. She hasjust been elected president of the Women'sAdvertising Club of Baltimore, a really bigjob coupled with her work as producerdirectorfor WMAR Television. (\VatchChannel 2 and help the ratings, please.}Real talent, that Janet Lee. In case youhaven't seen her, she looks exactly the same;and she is just as witty and poised as ever.Paul Maynard, hnrpstchorcltst and organist,recently perforrued at three programsof baroque music at the Cummington Schoolof the Arts in Massachusetts with SheliaSchonbrun, soprano. The program includedHandel, Bach, and Purcell. So nice to knowthat Paul is still enriching the world withhis wonderful music.Anita Richardson O.wIIld has been workinghard as an area chatrmnn in Lutherville-Timonium for the Red Cross CommunityChest collection. She has telephonphobiaafter making all those calls to get volunteers.Neets's husband, BrUce, is a lawyer. SonBruce is a freshman at McDonogh School,and daughter Corinne is in the fifth gradeat Pot Spring School.Some very exciting news about two ofour former classmates! Sam Jane Rice My,"sand Alvin Walker were married April 7 inWestminster. You will remember AI waswith us our freshman year before the Armytook him away. \Vonderful to hear of themarriage of these two. Congratulations.Bill is in the news again. The Bishop, thatis. The Reverend Doctor William E. Smithof Columbus, Ohio, has been appointed atrustee of Baldwin-Wallace College.Anna Lassahn W(11ker writes from Arlington,Virginia, that she is taking graduatecourses at George Washington to get up todate on the subjects she studied 20 yearsago. She has been taking French, of course,and right now is taking a corker called "ThePsychology of Language and Communication."(Call Anna, not me, if you want anexplanation of that.) Anna occasionally doessome "homebound" teaching for the ArlingtonBoard of Education. Her husband,Milan, a Hopkins graduate, is a mechanicalengineer who designs heating and air conditioningsystems for large buildings. Theirdaughter Beth is 11 and son Mark i~ 9.I missed Homecoming. Did you? Nonotice arrived by mail, and all seven of theformer WMC-ers who live in my blockmissed it. (Editor's note: Dee and apparentlyothers forgot that the Homecomingnotice has been included with the concertand lecture notice the past severalyears. This is an economy measure in viewof current postal costs.) Marian WhitefordBoyer was there. Have you seen Marian?She is certainly more attracnve and elegantthan ever with her silver hair. She claimsshe can account for each silver hair by anescapade of one of her three boys!I think I am bad luck for the WMC footballteam. I was there when Dickinsonslaughtered them 41 to 0 and when Drexelsqueaked by at 12 to 7. The Drexel gamewas a go~d one; the crowd was large andenthusiastic, but oh, the embarrassment ofit all! Drexel br_ought a huge, snapptly-uru,formed band With them. Our band, not assmartly attired, played a marvelous medleyof tunes as the great dance bands wouldhave played them, Tommy Dorsey, GlennMiller, etc.; and tllCYplayed wellHave you seen the campus lately? Theaddition to Lewis Hall is half finished. Soonbids will go out f~r the new dorms dininghall, and swimming poo\. {Perhaps youread that 1,200 applied for admission thisyear and only 234 could be accepted dueto space limitations.) The new chapel, library,infirmary, boys' dorm, and StudentUnion Building (containing grill, post office,and bookstore) have surely changed thelooks of the place. Did you know the sororityrooms are on the lower floor ofMcDaniel ofT the Rose Garden? The lavendercow-filled Phi Alph room and the redand white skunk-filled Sigma room are especiallyattractive. The fraternity rooms arein the boys' dorms, and they, too, are moreattractive with such things as panelingtrophies, and television.'Twenty-one years ago there was a BakerChapel. wedding. Thelma Young becameMrs. RIdgely Friedel, '43, and everyone wasthrilled because this was the wedding of avery popular Phi Alpha to a very popularGamma Bete.. To bring you lip to date,Thelma and Ridge spent 1946 in Berlin inthe A~y of Occupation. In 1947 Ridgewent WI~ the Insurance Company of NorthAmerica 111 Baltimore. In 1949 they movedt~ Dallas, and there they have stayed everSInce, still with the same. company. They~~:~~l~~ie ~~~r~~ i::irb:~ rien~~~~a~~and a freshman pre-dental student at SouthwesternU. in Texas. Their three girls areMarsha, 16, Barbara, 12, and Roberta, 8We hear a great deal about Texas thesedays, ~ut it certainly is nice to hear it fromthe Frtedels. Keep us informed, Thelma. Do~ou wear a ten-gallon hat and give little,informal barbecues, too?Peg (Margaret) Carter Welkos also haspagenineteeu